As you know, my external hard drive failed recently—with all the digital pictures I’ve ever taken on it, and tons of video and lots of other documents.
I’ve decided to go with ECO Data Recovery.
I talked to people from them, Data Recovery Corp, and Drive Savers. Although I felt like Drive Savers had the best chance of recovery (you should see their crazy success stories!), I choose ECO. The reason being that I feel that all 3 will have success, after talking to them, and ECO was the cheapest. Here were the costs:
ECO Data Recovery: $695 guaranteed
Data Recovery Corp: $895 estimated
Drive Savers: $1800 – 2700 (estimated)
Obviously if ECO fails to recover my data, I’ll be very upset with my decision and will be second guessing it for years. But after talking with each company, I feel like my problem is in the “very easy” end of the spectrum and all 3 will be able to fix it.
All 3 told me that the chance of recovery drops by about 50% on the 2nd attempt, so I really hope ECO can get the job done.
I will let you know how it turns out. Keep your fingers crossed!
